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Entercom President/CEO David Field should be smiling about his company's performance today on the NYSE. His company's shares rose 3% on Tuesday, and continued to rise in immediate after-hours trading on Wall Street. This puts Entercom stock above the $10 mark for the first time in a month. Also up today: Beasley Media Group, and The Walt Disney Co.

To the southwest of San Antonio in the city of Pearsall, Texas, sits a Class D AM that uses 1 tower to reach a wide swath of rural South Texas. This AM is one of eight stations that comprise "No Bull Radio," a network of classic Country stations. This AM is now also known for being handed a Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture for violations tied to its license renewal with the FCC. We've got an RBR+TVBR Observation on this avoidable proposed fine.

A Class B AM with 50kw during daylight hours but just 250 watts at night from three towers in the Roxborough area of Philadelphia has just traded hands. The buyer is a Delaware Valley broadcaster that's adding a second AM with this just-announced deal, which sees Kalil & Co. as the exclusive broker.

Shirley. Whitney. April. Hoda. They're just a handful of the honorees set to be honored at the 43rd annual Gracie Awards, presented by the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation (AWMF). The awards will be handed out at a gala event set for May 22 at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, where national radio talent will be recognized.

"Use Your Power." That's the message the National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters (NABOB) wants its member stations to deliver to listeners of African American targeted radio stations across the U.S.

An ubiquitous and otherworldly voice of late-night talk radio for a generation of radio listeners has been silenced. Art Bell, who rose to fame with the paranormal-themed overnight program Coast to Coast AM in the 1990s, died Friday (4/13) in Pahrump, Nev., where his program was based. He was 72.

If you go from Salt Lake City and head northeast, you'll reach a rural pocket of Wyoming with just a handful of radio stations available to listeners. Thanks to a petition from one broadcast company, the FCC has just OK'd the expansion of licensed FM stations serving this area by adjusting its FM table of allotments.

A unit of Ford Motor Credit Company on Thursday afternoon asked the bankruptcy judge presiding over Cumulus Media's Chapter 11 reorganization bid to modify an automatic stay of funds owed to the radio broadcast company's creditors. Why? It wants its leased SUV back so a Western New York Ford dealer can sell it.

After several years of discussions and hearings — and growing concern from radio broadcasters about a further pinch on revenue — the House Judiciary Committee this morning (4/11) unanimously approved a package of music licensing reforms.

Despite a much smaller total audience in Barstow, mainly known as a pit stop on drives from Southern California to Las Vegas, "El Portal" has proven to be a hit with advertisers and with consumers who continue to support a station providing them with something local. Could one of your underperforming radio stations see similar success by making a move that mimics what station owner Dos Costas Communications did in 2006? Find out in the latest Hispanic Radio Podcast from Radio + Television Business Report.

The NAB on Tuesday afternoon revealed the 10 winners of the 2018 Crystal Radio Awards. Launched in 1987, the NAB Crystal Radio Awards honor radio stations for their outstanding year-round commitment to community service.

There were some smiles and some cheers, and a few standing ovations, at the inaugural NAB Achievement in Broadcasting awards dinner held Monday evening at the Encore Las Vegas resort ballroom tucked away deep inside the posh Strip-side venue. Some of the biggest applause at the ascap-sponsored event was given to a big syndicated morning host based in the Big Apple ... and an NAB veteran who attendees learned via a surprise announcement will be receiving the prestigious 2018 National Radio Award.

A Class A FM serving the Twin Tiers region of New York and Pennsylvania is trading hands. The buyer operates stations across central Pennsylvania and in Tioga County, Pa. However, those stations can't be heard where this Class A reaches, consulting engineers Carl T. Jones Corp. finds.

With an estimated 130,000 attendees here for the 2018 NAB Show, Nautel, PILOT and a Beasley Media Group Classic Hits station serving Southern Nevada believe that foot traffic — and the attendance of many FM radio station owners — will greatly help in spreading the word that live HD multiplex technology has arrived.

With Apple apparently unrelenting in its refusal to include an activated FM chip in its iPhones, a Southern California wireless technology company has seemingly delivered to the nation what Silicon Valley has been a bit reluctant to roll out: a way to access FM radio on an iOS-powered mobile device. The company behind it, Blackloud, is using the 2018 NAB Show as its launching pad for the next gen earbuds.